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Re: Importing all modules in a CVS repo with git-cvsimport

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2008, 05:46 UTC
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Den Wednesday 19 March 2008 19.35.36 skrev du:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm wanting to import the entirety of a CVS repository into git rather
> than an individual module. However every approach I've tried to do this
> fails as the underlying cvsps tool seems to only be able to deal with
> modules rather than the whole project.
>
> Is there any invocation I could do that would do the whole import?

You didnt' mention anything about you tried, but I recall that using ',' for the module name is possible. Some version of CVS do not like it however and will bug out.

-- robin
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